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9201699 No.9201699 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone have any counter-arguments?

>> No.9201706

>>9201699
Yeah. "I haven't read that book."

Why do you consider it essential to the human experience enough to kill yourself

>> No.9201710

>>9201706
Why is it that "just being alive is all right?"

>> No.9201716

>>9201710
being alive in this period of time as your specific personality construct constitutes a very small segment of the totality of "being alive"

>> No.9201880

>>9201699
Most of life is forgetting or diminishing your consciousness anyway, so like whatever

Life is shit, that's pretty well understood, even without reading that book. Why worry so much about it?

>> No.9202052

>>9201699
What is it about.
Antinatalism? Pro-suicide?

>> No.9202071

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

>> No.9202088

This book is the equivalent of an edgy teen rambling

>> No.9202118
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>>9201699
>anyone have counter arguments to: "CRAWWWLLING IN MY SKINN...THESE WOUNDS..."

no, that argument is just bullet proof. wow, time to kill yourself.

>> No.9202119

>>9202052
IHEM

>> No.9202149

>>9202088
You have not read it.

>> No.9202163

>>9201699
Suicide is impossible. Here, I'll find and copy-paste the post I wrote on /lgbt/:

>> No.9202167

>>9202163
>I tell myself it's physically impossible to kill myself, because the universe (or, at least, the context of the universe, in which new universes will inevitably recur) is infinite and therefore the exact continuation of my consciousness will reoccur at some unimaginably distant hour, and inevitably, in at least one permutation of that event, I'll choose to live rather than die; and each time I die all I do is return myself, by slow torment, to the same arena of choice, which can be resolved by only a single resolution: life. The future cannot move off the other. Therefore if I'm in unspeakable agony I remember that I have been in this agony before; I will be in this agony again, and that it will continue - the intolerable horror of being will continue - no matter whether in this permutation I end it at that juncture or another, later. Suffering is infinite and total and suicide alleviates it none.

>(And because of the felt-continuity of identity, we can't even talk of there being a rest between our suicide and our eternal recurrence; for us there can be no interim. We die, and then instantly, start again.)

>> No.9202504

>>9202167
edgy teen rambling

>> No.9202515

Zapffe is the better sadboy writer tbqh

>> No.9202523

>>9202504
I don't know it's pretty much what Jorges Borges said in the Doctrine of Cycles and he wrote that when he was 40.

>> No.9202680

>>9202071
So much this

>> No.9202685

>>9201699
>Anyone have any counter-arguments?

My life is meaningful. I feel sorry yours isn't.

>> No.9202782

>>9202523
Some people never grow up. Just look around you and see how many man-children there are in academics

>> No.9203110

>reading Ligotti's sad ass philosophy instead of his infinitely superior horror fiction short stories

>> No.9203112

MALIGNANTLY

>> No.9203135

>>9203110
I strongly believe that this is also a horror story, that Ligotti doesn't actually fully believe what he's writing, more of a "wouldn't this be scary if it's real?"

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9203194

YOU do if you turn towards the other end of the corridor.

>> No.9204595

>>9203135

That's what I got from it as well

Especially that last chapter with the car crash

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>>9202163
>the post I wrote on /lgbt/
Why am I not in the slightest surprised?

Oh yeah, it's because faggots are mentally ill.

>> No.9204775

>>9201699
The author is a mentally ill socialist. Literally.

>> No.9204794

>>9202167
Jesus christ you need to go back to school and shut up

>> No.9204848

those who argue against life always do so by appealing to those things that reduce or destroy life

they use the inherent goodness of life as a cudgel to try to prove its opposite

or, if we don't want to be vague, how about self-reported world happiness score is 7, on average. is that good enough for you, YOU MAUDLIN GAY KID!

>> No.9204855

>>9201699
Nietzsche